Motivated by these incentives and the emergence of "peak oil" theory, companies like Shell, Exxon, and Amoco became some of the largest investors in solar technology.

受到这些激励方案以及涌现出的“石油峰值”理论的刺激，像壳牌、埃克森石油公司以及阿莫科公司成为在太阳能技术上最大的投资者。

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The first big hurdle for wind cropped up in March, with oil company Shell pulling out of wind, solar and hydro power because it felt they were not economic.

风能产业在3月份迎来了第一个“跟头”：石油巨头壳牌退出了一系列风能、太阳能和水力发电项目，因为他们认为(随着油价的下跌——译者注)这些产业已难以产生效益。

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Samsung rolled out a touch-screen model, dubbed Blue Earth, with a shell made from recycled plastic water bottles and a solar panel on the back.

三星的这款触摸屏太阳能手机命名为Blue Earth，其外壳是由再生塑料水瓶的材料制成的，背部配备了一块太阳能面板。

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This week Inhabitat shined a light on the future of high-tech architecture as we brought you 20 stunning sun-powered homes that are getting ready to battle it out in this year's Solar Decathlon - including Team New York's prefab Roof Pod, Canada's TRTL solar shell house, and China's Y Container home.

ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: sun-powered homes, retro robots and a solar laptop chipset

Shell, a large oil company, plans to put solar panels in thousands of rural homes in poor countries.

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Most of its profit now comes from constructing large solar power plants and selling them to debt-financed shell companies set up solely for the purpose of locking in a fixed yield based on electricity sales to utilities.

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